Today, Yahoo! placed two full-page ads on the back cover of the Times of India, the largest English-language daily in the world, to promote Yahoo! Cricket, a site that reaches 13.4 percent of everyone online in India and serves as the official website of the ICC Cricket World Cup.
Take a look at the middle right of the second page: it says “Play exciting games and win big” and features… Predictopus! That’s the Indian spinoff of Predictalot, the combinatorial prediction game I helped invent.
Predictopus has nearly 70,000 users and counting, and this ad certainly won’t hurt.
Yahoo!!!
BTW, I grabbed these images from an amazing site called Press Display, which I discovered via the New York Public Library.
Times of India Mumbai edition
30 Mar 2011
Times of India Mumbai edition
30 Mar 2011
Also, congrats India, and thanks! I nearly doubled my virtual bet with the victory:
70,000 is so impressive! Great stuff, Dave!
Although given your bet on India I feel bad for betting against Duke and Michigan in predictalot :p
I’ll forgive you Sanmay… someday. 😉
Thanks!